Posted on 08/16/2023 12:17:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A female Connecticut police officer was ferociously attacked by a hammer-wielding man, police said.
The Middletown Police Department said that on Saturday, August 12 at 6:33 p.m., authorities received a complaint about noise and breaking glass on a residential street.
Detective Karli Travis, who runs the Middletown Police Cadet Program and serves in the patrol division, was the first officer who responded to the call.
She approached the resident on foot and police said that she immediately noticed that the suspect, 52-year-old Winston Tate, was wielding a blunt object.
In a press conference on Tuesday, August 15, Chief Eric McCallister of the Middletown Police Department said that Travis calmly asked Tate to drop the object, a metal hammer, to the ground.
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Just a guess, but that would have a tendency to compromise your shot group. ☺
that may be. My point is the lack of incapacitation. That officer who got shot 4 times 9mm and ran back to his car.
Same shooting, hammer man just keeps hitting you.
To take an extreme example, 4 rounds from 454 Casull will do better.
Not a maybe...The video is clear in that regard.
That’s why cops are trained not allow a suspect, especially an *armed* suspect, get that close.
That’s just plain stupid, and why lot of cops end up dead by ignoring their training.
It would be interesting if they ever release details on the perps gunshot wounds.
Going back to the Michael Brown shooting, multiple hits with a 40, and only the last to the top of the head was incapacitating.
"Scholars" are getting bigger, fatter, and more drugged, and police need more powerful sidearms.
Diversity is our strength!
And you’ll note all the initial rounds before the fatal head shot to Brown, were center of mass.
And you’ll note all the initial rounds before the fatal head shot to Brown, were NOT center of mass.
10mm might suffice.
I have relatively mild 41 mag loads with lead 215 grain Keith style semi-wad-cutters that slam hard even with vest wearers.
.454 Casull will incapacitate just from the muzzle blast. Well, almost.
I suspected there was PC chicanery going on when the news did not report the name of the officer in any report I heard. I suspected it was a female and I was right.
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